Scotland's Local Environmental Quality Seminar 2025

Scotland's Local Environmental Quality Seminar will take place 29 October 2025.

This is an all-day, in person event held in Glasgow.

Join us at the 2025 Local Environmental Quality seminar for a full day of presentations, workshops and networking framed around the issues facing Scotland’s environment.

Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from Keep Scotland Beautiful and where we are focusing our attention, as well as insights from the 2025 How clean are our streets? report. We’ll also share our work on developing AI software to detect litter and our manifesto.

External presentations will be delivered by Scott Edgar from Diffley Partnership on the key polling data from this year’s Scottish Litter Survey and Glasgow City Council’s Director of Service Delivery, Neighbourhoods, Regeneration and Sustainability Jenny O’Hagan, who will share the council’s development and delivery of a city-wide approach to improve local environmental quality.

There will be 45-minute workshops held throughout the day, with delegates able to choose two out of four to attend.

This event is a brilliant opportunity to find out more about a collective opportunity to improve local environmental quality, what has already been achieved, what is planned in the coming year and future opportunities.

If you have any questions about this event or would like to attend, please contact: Brian.Rae@keepscotlandbeautiful.org

Seminar agenda

09:30 - 10:00	Registration and refreshments
10:00 - 10:10	Welcome Barry Fisher, Chief Executive, Keep Scotland Beautiful
10:10 - 10:30	Scottish Litter Survey - public perceptions and attitudes towards litter and littering behaviour Scott Edgar, Senior Research Manager, Diffley Partnership
10:30 - 10:40	How clean are our streets report Brian Rae, Operations Manager, Keep Scotland Beautiful
10:40 - 11:00	Developing and delivering a positive city-wide approach to improving local environmental quality Jenny O'Hagan, Director of Service Delivery, Neighbourhoods, Regenerations and Sustainability, Glasgow City Council
11:00 - 11:10	Q & A
11:10 - 11:30	Break
11:30 - 12:30	Workshop session one (see below)
12:30 - 12:40	Interim remarks
12:40 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 13:50	Delivering a roadside litter campaign - Year 3 of the National Litter and Flytipping Strategy Heather McLaughlin, Campaigns and Social Innovation Manager, Keep Scotland Beautiful
13:50 - 14:50	Workshop session two (See below)
14:50 - 15:00	Break
15:00 - 15:20	Utilising new technologies in data collection and use - outcomes from pilots in 2025 Brian Rae, Operations Manager, Keep Scotland Beautiful
15:20 - 15:40	Demonstrating the development of AI software to detect litter in the environment Bipin Babu, AI Engineer, University of Stirling
15:40 - 16:00	Open discussion on the Keep Scotland Beautiful Manifesto Paul Wallace, Head of Operations, Keep Scotland Beautiful
16:00	Close

Workshops

Session one

Workshop 1 - Changing behaviours through targeted campaigns

Emma Glencross, Keep Scotland Beautiful

The specific litter problem, including the behaviours, demographics and sources, varies across the country.

In this workshop we will run through how we’ve approached local litter issues using data to design bespoke campaigns targeting key behaviours, sources and audiences.

Hear about some of the key campaigns we have run, the toolkits and resources you can use, and help us consider areas we are missing and need to develop to ensure we have a suite of consistent campaigns for partners to utilise across Scotland.

Workshop 2 - TBC

TBC

Session two

Workshop 3 - Maximising community and volunteer action: utilising our resources and support and understanding what individuals and groups need to succeed.

Heather Ashworth, Keep Scotland Beautiful

Across the country there are thousands of individuals, working independently or as part of a group tackling litter and improving their local environmental quality. Over the years we/KSB have worked with them to share learnings, facilitate networking, build resources and develop approaches to support and grow capability and capacity.

In this workshop you will hear about the range of programmes and resources we have, how partners and local authorities have maximised them to grow sustained local community action and how you can replicate in your area.

Workshop 4 - TBC

TBC

Read about last years seminar

Speakers

Biographies to follow.

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